We've waited twenty years for THIS?!! An hour and twenty minutes of under-developed characters who do the silly things that people in horror films are "expected" to do and get their asses killed for their efforts?
Jamie Lee Curtis lends a certain amount of magic. She's under used. They have the chance to really make something thrilling here but when Michael and her finally come face-to-face, I felt a little less than excited. Maybe that's because I'd already realized what a lame film this was by then.
I think the moment I started hating this effort is when the two stupid, meaningless, under-developed must-dies showed up. (I think their names were Charlie and Sarah.) Instantly, you know they are going to die. Then when they do, you never knew them well enough to feel for them. They are sheep lined up for slaughter and, of course, that's exactly what happens.
Josh Hartnett did great with what he had but the mild drama that whole mother-and-son sub-plot delivered was a little less than lukewarm by the climax. (Which is, in my opinion, the worse cop-out I've ever seen.)
Michelle Williams is (BIG SHOCK) also extremely under-used as Molly. A girl who just kind of shrieks and cries her way through the beginning, middle, and end of this sorry, little horror film. I thought her character was going to some how get passed the torch but, apparently, I was dead wrong. Instead, she....well, she doesn't really do anything.
Sorry, folks. We waited twenty years and we still don't have a movie half as good as the original. If you haven't seen H20. Don't. The movie I imagined in my mind was a lot better than the one I rented.
Jamie Lee Curtis lends a certain amount of magic. She's under used. They have the chance to really make something thrilling here but when Michael and her finally come face-to-face, I felt a little less than excited. Maybe that's because I'd already realized what a lame film this was by then.
I think the moment I started hating this effort is when the two stupid, meaningless, under-developed must-dies showed up. (I think their names were Charlie and Sarah.) Instantly, you know they are going to die. Then when they do, you never knew them well enough to feel for them. They are sheep lined up for slaughter and, of course, that's exactly what happens.
Josh Hartnett did great with what he had but the mild drama that whole mother-and-son sub-plot delivered was a little less than lukewarm by the climax. (Which is, in my opinion, the worse cop-out I've ever seen.)
Michelle Williams is (BIG SHOCK) also extremely under-used as Molly. A girl who just kind of shrieks and cries her way through the beginning, middle, and end of this sorry, little horror film. I thought her character was going to some how get passed the torch but, apparently, I was dead wrong. Instead, she....well, she doesn't really do anything.
Sorry, folks. We waited twenty years and we still don't have a movie half as good as the original. If you haven't seen H20. Don't. The movie I imagined in my mind was a lot better than the one I rented.